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* I know absolutely nothing about plumbing so bare with please!
An old plastic threaded pipe under the cistern of the toilet is leaking quite badly. I assume its fairly easy to swap this over with a new one BUT I can't see any way of a)stopping water pouring out when I undo it and b)stopping water refilling (very old toilet), so is the easiest way going to be to tie the float up and empty the cistern?
Secondly being that its a really old toilet (its avocado colour) is it likely to be 3/8" rather than 15mm?
Cheers!
Turn water off at stop tap, flush toilet.
Have a few towels handy to mop up spills.
If you are replacing it, consider if you should put a wee isolation valve in the new bit to avoid the same problem when you get a new toilet?
Is it a solid plastic pip? IE the overflow pipe if so it could be leaking nearer the cistern itself and just want nipping up, if not and its the actual water in hose turn water off before you do anything
Exactly what Crikey said, plus is the plastic threaded bit actually the bottom end of the fill valve
[url= http://www.screwfix.com/p/armitage-shanks-9-bottom-entry-fill-valve/45479 ]Like this one[/url]
Excellent. Thanks all
I expect that in a toilet, isolating the wee would be a useful feature.